We entered the Kruger once again via the Phalaborwa gate and were already now pretty surprised how green the Park was.Our first stop was Mopani Rest Camp for our first 4 nights, as we had changed our booking from Sirheni to here after the horrendous floods in February.

We hadn't stayed here for ages and were a little bit excited to be back again.

We stopped at the Nanzane Waterhole and got a lovely surprise a Brown-headed Parrot was sitting in one of the trees.

Later after having our braai we felt somehow observed, grabbing the torch we discovered that a Genet was silently sitting there watching us, then I went inside to grab my camera, I was able to take just one photo, after that she just got up and left.....

That afternoon we did not go for another drive.Tomorrow we are moving to Satara for the next couple of nights and tonight we visited the restaurant.We can highly recommend that!!!It was a nice atmosphere, we sat outside, they put solar lamps on the tables and food was delicious.Definitely the best we had in Kruger!

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Today was our last full day at Satara....So our plan was to go and have a look for the Hyenas on the H6, we observed the Hyena den there last year May and thought that the den was still used this year too.Just after we turned onto the H6 we sighted some Kudus.Isn't this just a magnificent bull ?!

The road got more and more busy and so we decided to turn around and drive towards Orpen.We spotted another Squirrel, eating the same "fruits" like the Parrots the day before...Can someone probably tell me what they are ?

Unfortunately most of the times were not able to drive the small loops leading closer to the river as nearly all of them were still full of debris (no trash, but lots of wood, sand and stones) and big trees after the floods in the bginning of the year....So sad to see that so many of the huge trees are gone, but still so glad to see that a lot of them are still there..

Then they all went back into the higher grass and it was time for us to leave...

We checked in at Mopani for Boulders and soon were on our way again.Near Shipandani we checked the Black Crake nest once again and were sad to see that obviously there was only one chick left.....No matter how hard we looked, whenever one of the parents arrived with some food only one chick appeared.